## PLEKHANOV AND NEW ISKRA
[September 1905]

G. V. Plekhanov, even before his departure from the editorial board of *Iskra* in connection with the Menshevik conference (May 1905), undertook an independent publication of the *Diary of a Social-Democrat*.

No. 2 of this publication appeared in August 1905 and contained a large polemical article by Plekhanov entitled "Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends," directed against Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich intended to respond to Plekhanov's statement with an article, or perhaps an entire pamphlet, illuminating Plekhanov's entire position after the 2nd Congress.

This intention remained unfulfilled. Vladimir Ilyich neither published an article nor a pamphlet on this subject, evidently diverted from this theme by the turbulent development of revolutionary events. However, among Vladimir Ilyich's papers there remained two plans for the corresponding article (or pamphlet). Both plans bear the same title: "Plekhanov and New *Iskra*," and coincide both in their structure and in their elements; moreover, the plan printed by us under the letter "a" represents the elaboration and systematization of the initial drafts printed by us under the letter "b."

## a.
## PLEKHANOV AND NEW ISKRA.

1. **In place of an introduction. A small supplement to the analysis of the intellectual superman**).

1. Begins polemical pam[phlet] with solidarity, "Superman"2). 50//3)